SimpleTicket: Still Open Source (still great taste!)

I noticed a few comments from Ward and Vince regarding the status of SimpleTicket as an open source project.  To Ward’s question, “…does this mean that SimpleTicket is no longer open source?”  Absolutely not, we are committed to keeping SimpleTicket open source using the GPL.

To Vince’s answer, “…he took it back in house to develop.”  The hard part about building software is deciding what to build.  In the end we need SimpleTicket for our business and we must have certain features.  One day I looked at the demo version and it looked nothing like the software we had intended, instead it was circa 1999 radio buttons.  I proposed to the two most active non-Architel developers that they continue the project with their vision and we would continue a different project using our vision.  They decided they would rather complain than to continue their own version of the project.
To meet our deadlines (we had missed our May deadline working with the community) we hired coders to complete the second version of SimpleTicket.  Once it is released we would love to start building a community around the project.  Ward, we would love to have you on board.  But just as I said to the other developers, I don’t want you to waste your time on code that will never find its way into SimpleTicket.  By working together we can make sure that we all get what we want.  Go ahead and wait for the new code and if you like it and want to get involved please give me a call or send me an email.

July 6, 2006 | Trackback | [4] Comments

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Rails-ification Status

The interest in SimpleTicket has been somewhat greater than we expected.  The number of downloads in a week is a little overwelming and the reaction while generally positive has caused us to dedicate more Architel resources to the project.  What are we doing?  Well starting tomorrow, Giorgio Maone will be focused on three efforts:

• Rails-ification of the existing source code (i.e. cleaning it up so Grandma would be proud)
• Addition of RSS notifications for clients and engineers
• Addition of Tags to posts to assist with the development of the search feature

Giorgio has been working on several Big in Japan tools and is better known for his development on the Mozilla Firefox browser.  He also is well known for FlashGot, his Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird extension (more than 13 millino downloads to date).  The extension was a Softpedia 5/5 Pick!

February 8, 2006 | Trackback | 1 Comment

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